>The ancestral Menominee community that built the agricultural system uncovered by this new research, however, seems to have been less populous and hierarchical than a place like Cahokia, showing that large-scale agriculture may have been a part of life in very different kinds of societies.
Though takes like the above are speculative, and no doubt biased by political values (which I share), still this is support for the view that agriculture does not imply hierarchy, and more generally, different types of scaled societies are possible.
Though takes like the above are speculative, and no doubt biased by political values (which I share), still this is support for the view that agriculture does not imply hierarchy, and more generally, different types of scaled societies are possible.